A Brighter Kitchen
After what seemed like endless weekend days and weeknights of painting, we were ready to install the new hardware and put the cabinets back together.
They are definitely not perfect - the extra layers of paint and lack of veneer on the frames made things not fit back together exactly the same, but it looks a hell of a lot better and really opens up the room.
Before:
After:
We also put up a new lighting fixture (after bumping our heads on the existing one MANY times).
Before:
After:
As a side note - and an update to the May 2 post - the bird story did not have a happy ending. One day we didn't hear birds chirping anymore and figured they'd made it out. Jim went about clearing the nest (which was HUGE) out of the exhaust and putting a screen over the opening, and taking apart the vent cover inside the kitchen and cleaning that out. However, a persistent smell developed in our kitchen, and we decided that there might be something lodged in the section of the vent above the oven. Sure enough - four dead little birdies. We were pretty pissed off at the mama bird for making such a huge nest that her babies couldn't even escape the vent. She was pissed off at us for disturbing her nesting area - she even dislodged our first attempt at a screen and started building a new nest. So Jim went back up and secured a new screen. No more birdies in kitchen exhaust, and the mama bird seems to have left the area.
They are definitely not perfect - the extra layers of paint and lack of veneer on the frames made things not fit back together exactly the same, but it looks a hell of a lot better and really opens up the room.
Before:
After:
We also put up a new lighting fixture (after bumping our heads on the existing one MANY times).
Before:
After:
As a side note - and an update to the May 2 post - the bird story did not have a happy ending. One day we didn't hear birds chirping anymore and figured they'd made it out. Jim went about clearing the nest (which was HUGE) out of the exhaust and putting a screen over the opening, and taking apart the vent cover inside the kitchen and cleaning that out. However, a persistent smell developed in our kitchen, and we decided that there might be something lodged in the section of the vent above the oven. Sure enough - four dead little birdies. We were pretty pissed off at the mama bird for making such a huge nest that her babies couldn't even escape the vent. She was pissed off at us for disturbing her nesting area - she even dislodged our first attempt at a screen and started building a new nest. So Jim went back up and secured a new screen. No more birdies in kitchen exhaust, and the mama bird seems to have left the area.
posted by Alicia and James Smith | 10:39 PM
1 Comments:
Man that kitchen is dark! Hurry up and put the *after* pic up ;)
Sorry to hear about the birdies, nature can seem so cruel sometimes but at least you won't have to worry about it happening again.
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